Nature of engineering consulting projects

Journal of Management in Engineering

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 179-188

  Chang, Andrew S ^a   Chiu, Shu Hua ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Asia World Engineering and Construction Co   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Consulting firms; Costs; Data collection; Engineering firms; Productivity; Profits

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DATA ACQUISITION; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PRODUCTIVITY; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

CONSULTING FIRMS; DATA COLLECTION; ENGINEERING FIRMS; PROFITS;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 26644465082     PISSN: 0742597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0742-597X(2005)21:4(179)     Document Type: Article

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